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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2024-01-16
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9781538722374
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1538722372
ISBN-13
9781538722374
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22060625449
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tripping on Utopia : Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Experiments & Projects, General, Historical
Publication Year
2024
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-036568
Reviews
"Benjamin Breen has crafted a brilliant and original history of the chemical dreamscape of American democracy. With a driving narrative and unforgettable cast of characters, Tripping on Utopia resurrects the promise, dangers, and sheer weirdness of one of the twentieth century's unsung frontiers of discovery: the quest to change the world by altering humans' perception of it."-- Charles King, author of Gods of the Upper Air and Midnight at the Pera Palace
Synopsis
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker 's best books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists--and star-crossed lovers--Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life's mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson's partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age. As we follow Mead and Bateson's fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges.
LC Classification Number
BF209.H34B744 2024
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